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Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’
- Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership as both countries face rising tensions with the West.
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Firefighters tackle massive blaze in Odesa following Russian airstrike
One person was killed and eight others were wounded on Friday following Russian airstrikes on Odesa, Ukraine's National Police said on Telegram.
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Xi and Putin: The marriage of convenience that is reshaping the world order
Vladimir Putin began the second day of his trip to China on Friday by laying a wreath at the memorial to Soviet soldiers who kicked the Japanese out of Manchuria in 1945. Then he went to Harbin, the Chinese terminus of the trans-Siberian railway, to address an industry forum.
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Zelensky snubs Macron plan for truce with Russia during Paris Olympics
Ukraine’s president has snubbed Emmanuel Macron’s call for a truce with Russia during the Olympics this summer and said the West has put his country in a “nonsense situation”.
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Watch: British Army leaves US troops trailing in river crossing race
The 156-metre stretch across the Drawa River in western Poland would normally be a perilous scenario for approaching armies.
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Putin claims he has no plans ‘as of today’ to capture Kharkiv
Vladimir Putin has said Russia has no plans to capture the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as he discussed the possibility of peace talks with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president.
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The West has yet to grasp we have moved fast into a world crisis that leads to war
Isolationism is a good instinct but a bad policy. The difference between home and everywhere else is vital to the human psyche and to national existence. Logically, it leads to respect for others: they have their homes, too, so neither should interfere with the other.
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Out of the slaughterhouse, into the ‘meatgrinder’ for Ukraine’s recruits
Gennady Daskal is no stranger to blood and guts. Until last month, the 27-year-old was working in an abattoir in central Ukraine, killing pigs and cows for a living. Now, after being conscripted, he is preparing to enter a very different kind of slaughterhouse. As part of a rookie infantry assault unit, he is being trained up for the Donbas frontline – the gruelling combat zone that many nickname the “meatgrinder”.
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Russia’s navy has become a near laughing stock
The Russians are giving the world a maritime headache. In the High North, their uneasy teamwork with China continues. Moscow and Beijing have recently announced a “joint commission for the development of the Northern Sea Route”. Plenty of analysts, those of RUSI included, believe that this benefits Xi more than Putin, but either way, Russia’s desire to use the High North for grey-zone activities is only going to increase.
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Zelensky hits out at US for restricting use of Western weapons
Volodymyr Zelensky has criticised the US for blocking Ukrainian troops from using Western weapons to hit Russian territory as it battles a major ground offensive in Kharkiv.
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They Supported Biden in 2020. What Made Them Change Their Minds in 2024?
Frederick Westbrook, a retired Las Vegas hotel worker, voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 — as a vote to get Donald Trump out of office. He now calls that “the biggest mistake of my life.” “As a Black man in America, I felt he was doing unjust things,” he said of Trump. “He’s got a big mouth, he’s not a nice person.” None of that, in his view, has changed. But one thing has. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times “Everything is just about the economy,” said Westbrook, who
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Ukraine launches its biggest drone attack on Russian oil facilities
Ukraine appears to have conducted its largest-ever drone strike against Russia, causing a massive fire to break out at an oil refinery hundreds of miles behind the front line.
